East
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
East is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person living in the eastern part of a place, to the east of a place, or coming from the east.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 159K(inferred from the name graph)
- BSBahamas≈1 in 229K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 406K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than East itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
13,041 named Aart
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled อาร์ท in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person living in the eastern part of a place, to the east of a place, or coming from the east.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
East counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 13,041as Aart | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | East | 22 |
| TH Thailand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | #811,769 | อาร์ท | 40 |
| US United States | 218as Arth | 1 in 1.5M | 13K | East | 386 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 1 | East | 135 |
| BR Brazil | 116as Arth | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | East | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | East | 67 |
| BS Bahamas | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | East | 5 |
13,041 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018), counting the spelling aart. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
East is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the east; first attested Ralph del Est 1196–1237 Colch (Essex)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east, or regional name for one who had migrated westwards (and hence was regarded as coming from the east; cf.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ko; eastern region ko yaka yé yama
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In German, Howden I. Vars.: Eng.; Halbrook see Holbrook Vars.: Halls; Hallman. Ger.: Halle(r) (see also Heller); Hal(l)mann. Swed.; Hallen, Hallin, Hallman Malden, Haldin, Hallding, Holdane. Dims.: Fr.:
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edward H. Eastb. 1830USAmerican politician (1830-1904)
- Alfred Eastb. 1844GBBritish artist (1844-1913)
- Edward Murray Eastb. 1879USAmerican plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist and eugenicist (1879-1938)
- John Porter Eastb. 1931USAmerican politician (1931-1986)
- Nathan Eastb. 1955USAmerican jazz, R&B and rock bassist, guitarist and singer (born 1955)
- Jeff Eastb. 1957USAmerican actor
- May Eastb. 1959BRBrazilian singer
- Fleur Eastb. 1987GBBritish singer
- Shawn Johnson Eastb. 1992USAmerican artistic gymnast (born 1992)
- Chloe Eastb. 2001USAmerican actress and dancer (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,922 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #77,345 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name East mean, and where does it come from?
- person living in the eastern part of a place, to the east of a place, or coming from the east. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does East have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Aart, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name East?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 13,041 people named Aart, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eastThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “East”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.